The second golden age of the internet is officially over.
Unfortunately the golden age was just a mirage, it was actually VC funds killing the ecosystem and offering impossible free services for over a decade.
We’ll see if the internet can rebuild, but under the weight of spam and regulation and habit and clout chasing I’m not sure.
AI generated Reddit
Ad-blocks-you-back Youtube
Login locked pay-to-win Twitter
We are cattle to the elite’s ad revenue system.
They really don’t like their users, lol
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The second golden age of the internet is officially over.
Unfortunately the golden age was just a mirage, it was actually VC funds killing the ecosystem and offering impossible free services for over a decade.
We’ll see if the internet can rebuild, but under the weight of spam and regulation and habit and clout chasing I’m not sure.
I’m fine with that.
if it’s time to have conversations with actual people face to face, then so be it.
The utopian dream of the internet as the great equalizer and “Information wants to be free!” is dead.
It seems rather ironic to make that post on a fediverse service.
Why did the whole internet seemingly decide to kick their enshittification into overdrive in the past month?
There’s no more venture capital/free money to spend.
Yeah, basically it has to do with interest rates & tech speculation on LLM’s.
“Market trends”. One greedy dipshit does it and the rest follow suit. Like spez looking up to Elon.